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VOL. XXIII. GRANTS PASS. JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18. 1907. No. 29. 0. 1 ROGUE RIVER VALLEY ANNUAL POULTRY SHOW To Be Held in Grants Pe.ee January Under Auspices of Bud Fancier. in A "fecial meeting of the Grants Pass Poultry Keepers Association was held Monday evenins at the office of Charles Mesetve for the purpose of ar ranging for a midwinter poultry show in Grants Pass. There was a large at tendance at the meetiDg and all were highly in favor of a poultry show an3 the opinion was that a very creditable exhibit could be made. The show will be open to exhibits of all Rogue River Valley poultry keepers and it is exact - ed that Jackson county will be as ywell represented as will be Joseph ie counn ty. The show wilt be held in January but the date will depend on when a ompeteot person can be had to come bere and judge the exhibits. It is ex pected to get either Prof. Dryden, of the Oregon Agricultural College, or Mr. Elmer Dixon, of Oregon City to act judge. Prpf. Dryden is in charge of the department of poultry at the O. A. O. He came to Oregon last summer from tbeEast and be is bns of the best posted fyen in the United Staaces on all that pertains to poultry. Prof. Dryden acted as judge of the poultry exhibit at the Rogue River Industrial Fair held in this city last month and the impartial manner in which he made the awards and the thorough mow ledge he had of all features of the poultry industry made him many friends in Rogue River Valley. Mr. Dixon is one of the leading breeders in Oregon " of fine poultry and ' he is one of the best potted men on the Pacific Coast on all that pertains to fowls. As a judge of poultry he has a high standing and each"year he officiates as a judge at various poultry shows in Oregon, Washington and California. The general supervision of the poultry show is placed in an execu tive committee composed of George Cramer, Charles Kingwell and J. L. ; Fryer. The arrngeinent of the pre mium list aod of securing premiums was placed in the hands of a com mittee composed of George Cramer, J. D. Fry, C. E. Plamar and Mrs. P. Hanann. Thin cnmimttee was an. pointed at a nreviona mtin of the n.. ,i j , .i;mi l nary work in canvassing the business men of Grants Piss to secure dontions of premiums. They reported very gratifying success and when their work is completed they expect to have a list of premiums of such value and variety as will warrant poultry keepers to make an extra effort in making exhibit aud to injure a large display of fowls of all kinds. The next meeting of Association will be held on Monday evening, October 21, at the residennoe of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kingwell on East Iowa avenue. To unite pleasure with busi ness this meeting will be a social gathering as well ai for the comple tion of arrangements for the poultry show. The lady member of the As sociation are arranging lor this feat ure for the evening and will serve ice cream and cake. The admission fee they have fixed st six eggs and the eggs must be of recent vintage for they are to be sold and the proceeds added to the funds of the Association in meeting its expenses. Not having the half dozen eggs need not impel a person to raid their neighbor's heo . house nor to remain away from the entertainment for a silver So cent pier will bring to the donor as hearty a A BARGAIN Oil nCluS Pas. 20 acres of first class apple land, about 50 Hcre3 of Al grape land, south slope, abundant timber. About 2000 cords of oak, fir, and pine m'.I o the place. Fair buildings and fences. Price $2500. One half cash. If you want a good place for a little money, look this up. W. Xj. irelaud THE REAL ESTATE MAN Ground Floor, Opera House Block welcome to the evening's entertain ment as though they had brought the regulation admission fee. Every member of the Association is expected to be present and a oordial Invitation is extended to the onblic to attend aud spend an enjoyable evening. Anent the Governor's Veto. Editor Courier: At the first din ner of the winter given by the Com- merical club of Portland the question of the refereduin being invoked on the fl2a,000 a year approprition for State University at Eugene was discussed. All the speaker seemed to think that the governor was very much opposed to this appropriat on. Now there is at least a suspicion that the governor vetoed this bill for political effect in order to strengthen his position 'be fore the peop'e as a conservator of their interests when he comes before them as a candidate for United States Senator. It has been though that if the Governor bad not wished this bill to be passed over his veto it could not have been done. That im mediately after the governor ' vetoed this bill his frieuds were the most active ones engaged in mustering Votes to carry it over bis veto. Can it be possible that our governor could have played Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde on this proposition and given the lie to Lioooln's remark that you could not fool all the people all the time. We should like Governor Chamberlain to tell the people whether directly or indirectly he as sisted in getting enough votes in the State Senate to pass this bill H. B. No. 87 over his veto or not The unwritten history of a legislature would be very interesting reading. Tours for facts, INTERESTED CITIZEN. Obituary Caldwell. Mrs. Martha Williams Caldwell, wife of G. B. Caldwell, was born in Lynchburg, Ya., June 3, 1827 and died in Grants Pass, Ore., September 29, 1907. She was married in San Jose, Cal., in February 1852 and they oame to Josephine oonnty, Oregon in an early day. She joined the M. E. Church, South in 1859 and has been a devoted Christian ever since the pioneer preachers fonnd a resting place and real Christian hospitality in the home of this good woman. Sht was the mother of 10 children, five of whom survive her. Mrs. Mar tha E. Howell and Mr. Maggie Big- w. Williams, Ore; Mrs. Laura B. Dixon and O M.Caldwell, Grants Pass, Ore., and Mrs. Ella . Wilkins, McCloud, Cal. B. sides her husband and five c'lildren, she leaves CO grand children and great grand childreu. She was in poor health for several years but her devoted husband aod loving children supplied every tem poral want. She loved the Bible aud whenever she was able to attend church she was an intelligent hearer, of the preaching of the word. She was laid to rsst at Williams, Ore., September 80th. Funeral services were conducted by Geo. M. Gardner, pastor M. E church, south, Grants Pass. Ore. A devoted wife and lov ing mother has gone from us, bnt our loss is Hfaveu's Rain. May the lives of the bereaved ones be such that they will meet her in the Glory World. As R. W. Veatch boarded the train, yesterday, bound for Jacksonville several of his geutletneu friends, sur mising that he might be going on one of Cupid's errands, were at the train and made it rather embarrassslng lor him, by throwing a quantity of rice into the car window and making re marks which would lead .the passen gers on the trln to conclude ht he was either a benedict or soon would be one, which remsins to be seen. NEW WATER COMPANY ASK FOR FRANCHISE City Council Requested to Grant Permission to Start New Plnl (or this Purpose. Last evening the city council held its'regtilar semi-monthly meeting aud among other matters ,of importance was the petition of the Thompson Water, Land & Power Co.. of Port land, for a waterworks frauohise. Mary Thompson, one of the members was present aod Attorney Westoott, of Portlmd appeared before the body in support of the application. He stated that they proposed to fur nish water from the springs back of the Morrison place, north of the city, where at an elevation of 800 feet they claimed tbey could produce sufficient moisture to supply this city, and that they proposed having a gravity system, and two or three reservoirs. Verbally he said they could offer the water for domestio purposes at 16 cents for each lOOo gallons and for mechanical purposes where 10,000 gallons are taken at SO cents per 10,000 gallous and so on. It would take six months to install the plant and about 60 days to demon strate, by excavation that they could fill the agreement of providing anffi- cient water for the city's use. He said that they were ready to submit a written proposition to the council and the matter was referred to the old committee, Messrs. Kinney, Stovall and Ooburn, who are today conferring with the applicants, as to minute de tails and the whole matter will then be brought up for action at the next session of the council, two weeks bence. It was apparent from, the drift of sentiment ascertained among the connoilmen, as well as from leading business men, tbat everything binges upon the ability of these people to furnish enough water and if they will go ahead and demonstrate this fact, beyond any doubt, then the franchise will likely be theirs for the asking. - Celery at Pardee's. 10-18 It , A A A A A A A AAAA A Ask A WHAT PEOPLE SAY f One of the visiting railroad offi cials remarked to the Courier repre sentative: "Well I see that after you have been wanting and asking to have a new depot for the past three years, they are repairing the old one and now you may expect to wait an other three years for the new one! But, laying all jokes aside, the rail road peopl are planning to move the old building to the vacant lots just ad joioiug the present site this winter and if they do, they will make yon practically a new structure, jut as they have one at Oregon City and else where on the line. Ihe present site of the depot is too low aud it is too damp wheu the rainy seaoii i-i ou. Mark my word, you will, have prac tical l,'- a new and creditable depot be fore another springtime rolls around." "Say, Mr. Editor, bow about these petitions the numerous applicants for the position of postmaster in Graats Pass are circulating? Can a body sign any and all of them, if he wishes to do so One aspirant approached me aid wanted my signa'ure on his paper and when I told him tbat I had al ready signed up for aooihor pany be informed me that it made uo diff erence and that I could sign all of them, if I desired to do si. This was news to me and I am wondt ring just what sind of a paper I really did sign. Perhaps it was merely a certi float, as to good character, in which event I can sign all of them, for they are all good men, and true." Prominent Grants Pass citizen "Isn't it about time to give Mr. Carson another reception? Do yon know be will not, or at least does not put his Tokays on the local market? Yes, we can't go to the home grocer aud get some of our home grown grapes The very idea! Wby, it seems to me that, instead of shipping the grapes all away It might be a good plan for him to let his neighbors see what those boasted grapes taste like." C. S. Hoxie, a new arrival from Omaha, Nebraska : "I like your peo ple, your climate aod.tbe bright pro spects for the future. Before purchas ing a bone here, . I went to Med ford and other places which had been ad vertising heav.ly, but found that there was ' more or less hot air to be found and that land prices were ac cordingly too high. I got a bargaiq in the Kinney place and have sent for my family to come at once. After having spent 83 years in the drudgery of office work. I am looking forward, with pleasurable anticipation to the eiijofuii'nt of fruit raising and out door life. " "I tell you it is most encouraging to conio into a community like this aud have people meet Jyou with wide-open armt, as they have done me, said Prof. Stanton Rowell, the new band master, and then he continued, in talking with the Courier man "Yon certainly have a fine class.of people and the way everybody takes an in terest in the prospects for a band only goes to show, in advance that we are going to have a rousing, good band and one that will be a credit to this growing city. There is plenty of good material and then members are entering into the praotice witb much enthusiasm. Yes, we are going to have a splendid band, and not one but three bands. One will be the organization composed of the ex peneoced players, another or men who are not so expert and tben you must not forget onr Rogue River Boya Band, which will, I (am sure, become one of the star musical aggregations of Southern Oregon." Pastor Evan P. Hughes, of the Bethany Presbyterian church : "I tell you it does me good to see church members attending the mid-week prayer-meeting and their actions often have mucb influence opou the man of the world. I remember a case of this kind at Ashland, when one of the realty agents told a young man, a mem ber of m church, ask log him to tell his mother that the said agent would oall and see her about a business mat ter, Thursday evening. "You needn't come tbat eveuing, for she will not be at borne", said he and then be added "That is our prayer meeting night. It bad a good effect on the agent, who told me about it afterwards and who expressed his great respect for people who thus lived up to their pro fessions. "It does me good to sie bow patri otic you people of Grants Pass are," remarked a stranger within the city's gates to the Courier reporter and then he toutinued alter this fashion: "I see evidences of this on all hands. The flag poles in private yards aud in public places, the many G. A. R. buttons and Sons of Veterans emblems alMO are much in evidence. To an outsider such things make a lanting aud most favorable impression. I take it that you must have a sober, law-abiding class of people and thorn are the very kind of peole who will come here to make their homes , and to my way of thinking, they are the suit of the earth. You can't have too many of that clam of citizens." Capt. and Mrs. J. Obsoru-" have ar rived from Beilingham, Wa h., aud have taken charge of the local Hulva tion Army Corps. They find the worlaiu a very promising condition. This week tbey are .holding meetings for the public, except Tursday, when the soldier have their meet lug. Al ready tbey an huginuiiig to look ai.ead aud think of providing Christ mas treats for the poor of tb s lo cality. W. If. B. Kent, the forestry in spector from Washington, D. U. ao- coiupanied by Foreet Ranger, H. M. Guthrie left a few days ago for a tour i f inspection out in the Btuamboat region. While making the trip from Medford to this city the other day, in his big automobile, W. M. Hodsoo met with nuusual bad lock, having no Iras than four flat tires He said It w the worst pi we of bsd luck he had ever had and he hardly knew bow to account f r it He was here to look up some wood, as the fuel quest ion at Medford is said to be getting to be rather serious. A few days ago, T. P. Cramer ' mounted his bicycle, with his fishing rod on his shoulder and rode out to the Golden Drift dam. three miles from the city where to Just one aod three-quarters of an hour he ought 10 fine salmon trout, the largest weighing nine pounds aud two ounoe and ths total W pounds. M. C. Ament landed nine member of th Sony tribe in the same time. PIONEER CRAPE GROWER IN ROGUE RIVER VALLEY Friend of the Lcxte Peter Brltt Claim Thia Honer for Tnat Departed Horticulturist. A Jacksonville correspondent of the Oregoniau claims the honor of being the father of the grape industry in the Rogue River Valley for the late Peter Britt, for half a century a respected resident of the county seat, whose beautiful gardens and vineyards, now maintained by his son Emil Britt, are a show place for all visitors to Jack sonville. The corresoondent savs: The questions as to who is the father of the grape industry in Rogue Kiver Valley has beeu rassd as the outcome of a banquet reoeutly given by a real estate firm at Grants Pass in honor of A. H. Carson, a grape grower of that section of the valley, who is credited with being the orlgi nator of the grape industry In South ern Oregon. It is an unearned and unfair honor to credit Mr. Carson or any of the other present vineya'dista or Jac it son or Josephine county with being the father of the Rogue River Valley grape industry, the true facts ar herewith given : "To t he late Peter Brltt of Jackson ville belongs the honor of Introducing tame grapes Into Rogue River Valley and of having the first commercial vineyard. This vineyard consists of 16 acres and is ene of several in thi vicinity that have demonstrated that Rogue River Valley can oroduoe a grape and a wine equal to the best of the famous Europe. Mr. Britt was reared in the grape district of Switierland. and, having traveled In France, he thoroughly understood the srowine of grapes and the making f wine. He arrive in Jacksonville in the fall nf 1883, being one of the Dioneera nf tl.l. old mining town, aod noted the vigor of the wild grape vines about her, and he determined to give tame grapes i trial. He got bis first v.lni from California in 1864 or lXM m,..J Our Customers -ARE OUR BEST For they always find in our big store the latest designs in the housefurnishing line, and then we sell at prices which arc sure to please the people. : : ' : AS A MATTER Kvery liuly wnnts her house nicely fur nished and that's where we shine. You should come und nee for yourself tho many useful and attractive articles which we oiler, another carload just ar rived and we ask you to como in and look them over. All wo ask is that you come and see our goods and com pare prices, we'll risk the rest. : : : : Your's to Please Furniture and Car- 'ssssasasasai iU. Linoleum.. H II M S Oranitewars, I Curtains, Por- U U II Nfllll Agteware. Ttnware, tieres, Maltreats, II II SHI Woodenw.r. Pillows. Cots, Wall II. Ill U IIUIII Wlllowar., Cutlery, l'ar, dorks, Crockery I ainna Mirror., Window THE MOUSEFURNISHER Ola,,,. ' Kane'y bhades, PU lures, China. Oo-CarU, Picture Moulding. f ron St D- 6 fcnd 7 hthj Carriagt. were the old Mission grapes and they grew so well that he later got in other varieties and for the 60 year to the time or his death in October, 1905, Mr. Brltt carried on the work of demonstrating what were the best grapes for this soil and climate and in that period he grew over 300 var ieties of American and European grape. "Vines were had from Mr.' Britt for every vineyard iu Rogue River Val ley, including Mr. Carson's that were planted p'ior to the last 10 years. "The Brltt grape aud the Brltt wine were famous while yet Mr. Carson was a struggling lawyer in Arkansas, and the flue quality of both were kuown to all pioneers of the Pa cific coast who had occasion to pass through Jacksonville on the stageTliiie In early days. "Mr. Britt was a lover of naturf as well as a scientific horticulturist, and the park about his residence in this place has been for .years one of the leading attractions of Southern Oregon." Although General Agent Mahouey would not positively confirm the rumor, yet he would not deny the fact that General Superintendent L. R. Fields, of the S. P. Unas in Oregon was bere yesterday, in company witb Roadmastar W. Bothnia who were aalit to be actually making arrangements for removing the depot gtound from their present looatioo,' two blocks to the east, bringing them between 7th ad 8th streets. It is stared that sub stantial $17, 000 v brick passenger and freight depots very similar to those now being erected at Eugene, ar contemplated. Manager Horner of the new Grants Pass Box Factory inform the Courier that everything U moving along nicely out at that new plant. New machinery Is being Installed, right along and there is not a hitch In all the extensive works now tiuder full operation. He finds that they are really unable to supply all the de mands made upon them for material. although they are ruoning the plant day and night. He Is greatly pleased with the way the business I flourish log. ADVERTISERS- OF COURSE